Its all about my flash lite works
Little late posting about it but its worth looking Adobe edge June 08 edition showing some of the behind the scene cool flash lite mobile application demos by Adobe Experience Design team.
Some other interesting articles in this edition are Untravel Media enables unique sightseeing tours on mobile devices and The edge of Flash.
vivek
Forum Nokia has announced the winners of the 2008 Code Camp Competition. The contest aimed at inspiring Forum Nokia Code Camp attendees to build Web Runtime (WRT) widgets and Flash lite applications.
The Winners are:
Grand Prizes
Flash: CityLite by MSCorp of Coral Springs, Florida. A mobile guide to night life, restaurants, and entertainment venues in Latin American cities.
WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K. A mashup that combines the Flickr photo-sharing application with MapQuest APIs to let users look for and get directions to places of interest.
Europe/Middle East/Africa
Flash: Kuneri Easy Vote from Kuneri of Oulu, Finland. One-button mobile voting lets users vote by mobile phone call, text message, or Web service.
WRT: Flickret from Mark Caunter of the U.K.
Americas
Flash: CityLite by MSCorp.
WRT: Fon11 by Mo’Blast of Berkeley, California. A mobile social-networking utility that lets users share their whereabouts with friends and family and determine if their contacts are nearby.
Asia-Pacific
Flash: WIND from Fieldsystem. This screen saver displays an image of a propeller turning in the wind. If the mobile signal is strong, the propeller spins quickly; if the signal weakens, the propeller spins more slowly. Also, the screen saver’s background scenery changes throughout the day.
WRT: Nutrition from Singapore Polytechnic. This widget is used for calculating your BMI and also calories burned on a daily basis, and it can help the user to check typical food nutrition in order to maintain a healthy life style.
China
WRT: Push To Speak from Beijing Motech Technology. This mobile travel guide to China helps tourists search for restaurants, places of interest, streets and more. Also, when the user clicks a word, the software “speaks” the word in Chinese, a useful feature for asking directions and instructing taxi drivers. The latest version includes information relating to the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
Congratulation to all winners 🙂
vivek
Qualcomm and Adobe announced the BREW® Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash® technology and new platform features. BREW Mobile Platform, which leverages Qualcomm’s widely deployed BREW Client software, greatly expands the capabilities for developers and enables them to create rich applications and Web content in Adobe Flash for the BREW environment. The software will fully integrate and deliver Adobe Flash technology to mass market handset devices. By combining the strengths of both BREW and Flash technologies, BREW Mobile Platform brings the mobile application and Web content development communities together, setting a new standard for mass market handset platforms.
The differences between the Flash Lite extension model and the BREW Mobile Platform are:
Great News and increasing wide areas for Adobe Flashlite developers 🙂
Read more
Indepth thoughts via Bill perry
vivek
It’s great news coming around the world using Adobe Flash Lite technology specially in terms of on demand videos entertainment industry straight to your pocket mobile devices.
Recently Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) launches mio TV on Mobile service using Adobe Flash Lite technology and Nokia Siemens Networks’ Mobile TV streaming solution. SingTel is the first operator in Singapore and one of the first in Asia Pacific to launch a mobile TV client with true TV viewing experience on mobile phones.
“mio TV has revolutionised the way people watch TV, and the mio TV on Mobile service provides our customers with yet another convenient medium to expand their viewing options,†said Mr Wong Soon Nam, SingTel’s Vice President of Consumer Marketing.
“With Singapore’s high mobile penetration rate and SingTel’s customer base of over 2.5 million mobile users, the largest in Singapore, it makes sense to offer compelling content on our mobile platform so that Singaporeans have access to their favourite mio TV content wherever they may be.â€
Expected Launching: July 2008
Price: Â $6 per month for unlimited viewing of the live channels. Ondemand price $0.50 per clip.
vivek
Via Mark Doherty, Yesterday in Taiwan Chunghwa Telecom launched their new Channel Me service, powered by Flash Cast. The service launches with some fantastic looking channels, some of which you can play with, see here (press the yellow button). Channels include news, weather, sports, travel, dining out amongst others. The channels look fantastic and really fit the vision of rich and engaging experiences.
The service is supported on Series 60 and Windows Mobile devices from the launch include the stunning HTC Diamond.
vivek
Last month when i was in Adobe RIA Architect Summit 2008, Bangalore. Raghu from Adobe capture this 30 seconds video about me and what Adobe Flash lite means to me 🙂 honestly 30 seconds moved so fast fast 😀 and its gone till 1 minute ..he heThanks Raghu for uploading this video on www.30onair.com.vivek
Pasi Manninen shown a good example of using Kuneri lite Camera and Upload plugins. powered the Flash lite capabilities on mobile devices. Extend the Flash lite capabilities on mobile devices. Now you can upload take and upload pictures in ease way 🙂
vivek
The BREW 2008 Conference about to begin in three weeks. And you can’t afford to miss a minute. With an expanded program lineup and our most global group of participants to date, this year’s event promises to be filled with everything you need to push your business to the next level. So tap into the power of BREW experts 🙂 and enjoy with over 90 sessions spanning the conference.
Conference:Â BREW 2008
Time: May 28 – 30, 2008
Place: Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA
Click here for complete session details
It include very exciting Flash lite session:
TECH-503 – Beyond Content: the Power of Flash® Liteâ„¢ for Core UIs
BREW®’s Flash Lite Extension enables customization at the core UI level, beyond themes and screensavers. Come learn how Flash Lite’s abstraction allows rapid development opportunities.
This session covers:
1. Flash Lite’s extensive personalization opportunities
2. Access to core BREW functions
3. Benefits versus other UI technologies
Speaker: Christian Robertson, Technical Evangelist, Punchcut
I hope to see recording of this session, if possible as usual design is something which always passionate me 🙂
vivek
Via Bill, A new article published on the Adobe Mobile DevNet about “Developing Flash Lite applications with dynamic layouts”.
David Brown from Agencynet wrote the article and he showcased an excellent example of Bacardi Mobile application that i have seen couple of times in podcast as well as live in handsets too. This article covers the technical side as well sample files are also included.
It’s always passionate me too see just not a good application but the engaging creative experiences we actually create for everyone 🙂
vivek
Today Adobe announced the Open Screen Project 2008, A great news and step ahead for flash player reachability ensuring a consistent rich Internet experience across a broad range of digital screens and form factors including mobile phones, consumer electronics, televisions and personal computers “anything to anywhere, experience matters”
The Open Screen Project is supported by technology leaders, including Adobe, ARM, Chunghwa Telecom, Cisco, Intel, LG Electronics Inc., Marvell, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics Co., Sony Ericsson, Toshiba and Verizon Wireless, and leading content providers, including BBC, MTV Networks, and NBC Universal, who want to deliver rich Web and video experiences, live and on-demand across a variety of devices.
The Open Screen Project is working to enable a consistent runtime environment – taking advantage of Adobe® Flash® Player and, in the future, Adobe AIRâ„¢ — that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and consumer devices, including phones, mobile internet devices (MIDs), and set top boxes. The Open Screen Project will address potential technology fragmentation by allowing the runtime technology to be updated seamlessly over the air on mobile devices. The consistent runtime environment will provide optimal performance across a variety of operating systems and devices, and ultimately provide the best experience to consumers.
Specifically, this work will include:
Read here for further more What it means for Developer and Businesses.
vivek
A great news for Adobe Flash lite developer, Sony Ericsson today announced at its Developer World conference plans for a new technology that bridges Adobe Flash Lite and Java ME development platforms.
The technology, called Project Capuchin, allows Java ME applications to use Flash Lite as the front-end interface for mobile phone applications.
More importantly, it builds a connection between the phone’s applications and Flash, something that the few phones able to run Flash don’t do. Flash is just a display layer, not actually interactive with the phone!!
“In using Flash, you typically can’t access properties of the phone. But with Capuchin, you can get at information and applications in the phone and use that info with the Flash display,” said Christopher David, director of long-term platform planning at Sony Ericsson
So its a kind of a great tool that wraps that Flash content in a Java file, so it can be used as a Java file.”
Preety cool 🙂
vivek
Have a look to my new character design straight out of the i2fly studio, She is playing around my creative studio for quite a few months so I thought to release it and show the world.
I name this character as “FLORI” I really love this character very much. Flori is sweet, cute, innocent and naughty too 😀 .
You can use “FLORI” as a screensaver/wallpaper in your mobile phones, it looks just beautiful, i really love it. And I am sure you will love too 🙂
Download this content to your mobile phone here.
Flori as an character is also available for license worldwide, kindly get in touch with me at design@i2fly.com
As usual love to know your feelings. Feel free to post your comments/suggestions/views anything. Curious to know about it.
vivek
Nice article by Giorgio Natili on forum Nokia for creating Flash lite 1.1 menu, One of the most common stuff with Flash Lite is to create menus and its really important to make codes simple and optimize to work perfectly.
vivek
The Strategy Analytics report says, “Silverlight on Mobile will not catch up with Adobe’s Flash Lite in the foreseeable future, but Microsoft recognizes a great opportunity beyond providing an alternative to Adobe’s Flash Lite. This Silverlight strategic offering will boost Microsoft’s online and cross-platform ambitions in the mobile space according to analysts at Strategy Analytics.
“The Silverlight deal with Nokia gives Microsoft access to Nokia’s S60 licensees including LG, Samsung which is vital for competing with Flash Lite,” commented Sravan Kundojjala, Analyst at Strategy Analytics. “They estimates that over 1.7 billion Flash Lite-enabled phones will be shipped globally over the next three years alone.”
Stuart Robinson, Director of the Handset Component Services added, “Strategy Analytics believes cross-platform wars will likely heat up in the mobile space, an argument strengthened by Nokia’s Trolltech acquisition. And also believes that SUN Microsystems will join the fray with its JavaFX platform.”
vivek
Forum Nokia organising a Flash Lite Webinar on “Flash and Mobile Browsing”. This Webinar will explore the integration of Flash Lite on mobile devices, give pointers for developing online mobile Flash content, and provide a full question-and-answer session.
Presentation time: approx 60 minutes.
Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
Time: 3.00 pm London, 5.00 pm Helsinki, 10.00 am New York, 7.00 am San Francisco.
vivek
Forum Nokia published an in-depth article on “Build a reusable Flash Lite 1.1 component”
Components and reusable code are important aspects to developing applications for any platform, including Flash Lite 1.1. Components speed up development and help make coding tasks easier. Many people still thinks or left designing applications or content in Flash Lite 1.1 for many reasons or off-course limitations but i still feel and try my best to work on Flash Lite 1.1 as device can be targeted more and you can reach it to more users.
vivek